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Teens Win $1M Lawsuit After Being Expelled for 'Blackface'

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0:00 like when I was at in Chicago at a bar and a guy was like he went up to me and was like yeah we we nuked you guys at at [Laughter] Hiroshima all right guys we have a little bit of a story time about these uh two teens oh they got kicked out of their Catholic private school after this old photo emerged of them um doing blackface oh they were 14 at the time this is back in 17 and then 3 years later that image of them went viral at the height of the George Floyd stuff in BLM so they ended up getting kicked out of their uh their Catholic private school and now they've just won a lawsuit that the school has to pay them 500k each

0:51 wow you don't even know why hold whoa whoa whoa whoa what are we clapping for sorry what are we clapping stop slow clap stop he's like 500k wait but they're racist no 500k each to fund the blackface production yeah the return of the minstral show so there it's it's because the school failed to adhere to due process when they kicked them out they didn't give them a like a fair investigation or so they're still wrong for the black B but the process was F here's the kicker because had they actually looked into it they would have found out this so it turns out that the the P let me just show you the picture first of all so this is a photo so it's this damn the two boys and then their third friend they're just doing a mud mask it turns out that if they did investigate they

1:42 would have found out that what they were doing oh that's a mud mask was uh they were they put on acne medication in solidarity with their third friend who was suffering from severe acne damn and it was proven that this product actually comes on as light green it's just the lighting it's the lighting it's like Tyler with his ████ purple face or whatever and then it dries darker and they took a photo and it just looked like that dude you could tell that's mud dude D that looks like black face to me that's black face I've ever seen it and I study a lot of black my narrative brother how come three of them didn't get expelled only two cuz the the third guy didn't go to that school oh yes that's right people I feel like people like during times of protest people will like look up any photo of

2:32 whatever and go oh this fits my narrative let me just yeah there's a big gotcha epidemic that comes out so stupid you know but it sucks cuz the people that aren't even doing anything wrong they get like you know pinned for it yeah I think that's that's naturally what happens with every they should have got paid more they said that it was like a they did they did actually sue for more than that oh really I think they suit for like 20 mil or some ████ but the judge was like you're only getting half a mil dude because think about it like you're they're ruining your whole life and everybody thinks that you're this person now that's that's ████ up there's no like not enough money for they're like you racist yeah it said the lawsuit initially saw 20 million but then they rejected some of the boys claims including defamation and violation of free speech dang well it's like that little kid who was wearing like a a chief he was at the Chiefs game oh my God that's the biggest big let's

3:24 SW with people man that's they took it from one side yeah yeah he's a little racist doing blackace and he loves it yeah and then they find out he's Native American and he's suing the ████ out of them and they that that company took like fired all their staff I think so yeah they flushed a toilet of that company out and then and then it got bought by another uh was it a media it was one of those like deadline Gawker kind of things I don't know which one yeah yeah yeah yeah I think it's dead spin dead spin yeah yeah that was crazy so I mean I think a lot of people who are who got lumped into the whole like villain Arc of like racist people are now getting Justice hopefully you know damn have you guys ever done black face at all ever no a thousand times only privately only privately in my personal life I've done it public watch the dishes I identify as a person doing you know what's kind of scary too is like

4:14 people that do believe media and they don't look to like do further research they probably have this view of the world like oh yeah the world is racist cuz look at all these articles but then the real reality is like how many of them are actually true and like what's your real world really like you know but you know what they say if you're looking for it you're going to find it you know you're looking for blackface out there you're going to find it also like if you if you're having problems finding racism just like go on Xbox Live oh dude or or just anywhere on Instagram that or any comments any comments anywhere live and well dude I've never I've never seen the nword more prevalent on Instagram than right now like it's everywhere especially when you see a a kid trying a a challenge or an accomplishment yeah it's like a like someone lost weight and then it's like good job NW like that's like the thing right now it's

5:04 like everywhere everywhere D but I be seeing Joe's comment under random posts all the time that's the algorithm man it's sharing whoever follows me on post and then you see me in the comments cuz I'll see this full too yeah see me what does Ryan say in the comments what does he I'll be saying stuff too I think he's usually it's usually the JK account that he's commenting with you know what trend I've been seeing in comment sections when there's like some video with something super complicated and somebody in the comments is like oh let me break it down for you and then you click it and it's a ████ guy break dancing I don't click on those I know it's a bait yeah I know would you do you think that what would would this change the situation for you if let's say that these guys initially when they did this knew what they were doing and thought it was funny but then the lawyer was like hey I think we can get you guys a

5:54 settlement by saying that it was acne Med and like I mean that could be a thing too but regardless it it doesn't matter is but if they had like the intention if we knew the intention then I would have been like a man you guys got away but also like cuz I think there's a chance of that still absolutely but but should people be like I don't know like they're kids like 14 yeah under 18 you could be as racist as you want I still think it's more wrong for people to sensationalize something that's not really the reality verus a group of kids ████ around who cares so it's wrong it's more wrong on the other end y y okay I agree I think so cuz you're blowing it out of proportion versus this is something their parents could have had so what at what point of a underage person being

6:45 being racist is it like where do you draw the line of like something needs to be yeah what age what are they allowed to get away with like 10 years old and no I mean like what activity what like activity I don't think any of it is is can you even burn a cross on your lawn anymore can you or is that just Shenanigans dude you boys being boys you know what actually happened to me like kids being kids there was a a group of kids at this performance I was doing for like these rich people and they're their rich kid rich people's kids yeah and he's like 10 or something and he goes up to me and he goes hey you know uh what your face reminds me of and I'm like what and then he takes out his phone and he plays the song Yellow by Coldplay did you beat his ████ ass and then I was like oh dude yeah and Steve was that young Steve green

7:35 dude yeah and he looks he looks like a white kid was he Jewish was he Jewish for I don't know he looks like a white kid and I was like oh that's so funny dude and he's like oh don't worry I'm Asian too I'm like okay doesn't matter you don't look Asian either but I say my wife's Asian and I get away I did the professional thing cuz I was there on a job so I was like whatever dude I don't care cuz I'm not I'm not about to like just punch a kid honestly that's really funny it is I I thought it was funny but at the same time it's such a nice song you didn't have a rebuttal you didn't have a rebuttal it wasn't enough for me to go like like I'm like kind of neutral about it cuz I'm like I get what he's doing he's trying to make it funny you know but I was like you trying to do a bit yeah basically that's why I'm like hey under 18 yeah you could shoot your shots kids be saying ████ like that I was exactly no the thing is I knew it's

8:26 coming from a little tiny little person so I'm just like whatever you gotedit it makes you laugh like it's and it's hard because like you look even funnier when you're mad about it exactly yeah you can't no I I was more like just surprised than I wasn't mad or I wasn't anything I was just like oh ████ he ████ He's roasted he just roasted you cuz have you ever have you ever performed like at you know you know how a lot of dancers do B Mitzvah oh my God how it's I have done one everybody that's like one of the sickest gigs you get paid so much and you just party pump the whole time those kids are Savage at joking like they're funny as hell they're funny as hell and and they have so much confidence and they will tell you racist J they'll say ████ like that yeah yeah they try to test you because obviously like when you're there you're the minority like for real there's no oh

9:17 for sure and you're and you're like not only that but you're the class minority yeah cuz they look at you like you know you're the little spinning guy that they hired yeah yeah okay how much let's go around the room how much money to walk up to a black dude and like hey you know what you're reminding me of then you play Paint It Black oh ████ I'm going say five four I'm going to say 50 G's 50 G's 50 G's you know 50 is it being recorded well that's because you know what 50gs to you is different I can turn you're hearing exactly but that's going to be 50 and then 49 and then 48 for me I can't flip that I can't turn this into more money spending it I think depends are we talking about Steve URL black or are we talking about shook Knight black talking about Darius McCary

10:07 Black Diamond Hanson the but how you going to but how do we control people that are out of line I think like having you know what honestly like the way that I've gotten through it is just having a a pretty good rebuttal to where like oh that's the game we playing and then you just you just get in that same field and then usually if it's if you roast somebody back harder than they got you they just stop and then it becomes like cool you got I would have done that but then I love that it gives me an opening to be that way too cuz I like like oh I didn't know we were all right what talking about you know what I mean it's that it's that if you have something in the holster ready for that then it kind of diffuses it yeah that's the thing I don't I really didn't have anything to say what could you have said back to him what what are some features you could have made fun of him about I could have probably called him a girl cuz he looked like a girl that

10:57 would have been good then then you're up for really but my mind my mind doesn't like default to that though it doesn't default to like you're not Petty CU you're not like that yeah you're nice I'm a small man like this big me too me too yeah I love being petty but then there's also there's also the difference of some people are saying that to you as a way to inight like violence and that's different like like when I was at in Chicago at a bar and a guy was like he went up to me and was like yeah we we nuked you guys at at ████ Hiroshima weed yeah yeah I was like what the ████ that's so Brazen dude that's crazy and that's just a drunk guy wanting to fight that's not he'll say anything to like make me mad not friendly racial understanding the game is really important it's it's

11:48 like so extreme where it's not even a race thing anymore he's just trying to be he's like having some personal issue and he needs to like take it out on someone and he want to stab you yeah yeah let's do it [Music]

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